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31673Sports Reference Logo7/5: FootballPerspective.com- Trivia: Pro Bowlers on NFL Champions, Part IIhttp://www.footballperspective.com/trivia-pro-bowlers-on-nfl-champions-part-ii/
Last weekend, we looked at the team with the most Pro Bowlers to win a championship. Today, we look at the reverse: the team with the fewest Pro Bowlers to win it all. As a technical matter, the Pro Bowl hasn&#8217;t always been around, so some pre-1950 teams and the 1960 Oilers (there was no [&#8232014-07-05 00:36:047/2: FootballPerspective.com- Steven Jackson and Running Back Recordshttp://www.footballperspective.com/steven-jackson-and-running-back-records/
One of my very first posts at Football Perspective looked at the weighted career winning percentages of various running backs. You can calculate a player&#8217;s weighted career winning percentage in lots of ways, but here&#8217;s what I did: Calculate the percentage of yards from scrimmage a runnin2014-07-02 00:36:043/17: FootballPerspective.com- The Best Punt Returners in NFL Historyhttp://www.footballperspective.com/the-best-punt-returners-in-nfl-history/
Six years ago, I wrote a series of posts looking at the best returners in NFL history. Today, I want to update that list by examining the best punt returners in NFL history. As with most statistics, yards per punt return has fluctuated throughout most of NFL history. The graph below shows the averag2014-03-17 00:35:473/15: FootballPerspective.com- How Bad Was Ray Rice in 2013?http://www.footballperspective.com/how-bad-was-ray-rice-in-2013/
The 2013 season was a disaster for Ray Rice, and 2014 isn&#8217;t off to a very good start, either. Last season, Rice carried 214 times for just 660 yards and four touchdowns, producing an anemic 3.1 yards per carry average. On November 9th, I asked whether Rice was already washed up; at the time it2014-03-15 00:35:5910/26: FootballPerspective.com- Trent Richardson and 400 carrieshttp://www.footballperspective.com/trent-richardson-and-400-carries/
Trent Richardson has been a frequent topic of discussion at Football Perspective. In about 14 months, I&#8217;ve written the following articles: How often does the first running back selected in the draft become the best running back from his class? The field is always a better bet than one player: 2013-10-26 00:36:489/24: FootballPerspective.com- Receiving WOWY Extended Back to 1950http://www.footballperspective.com/receiving-wowy-extended-back-to-1950/
Last week, we announced that our True Receiving Yards metric has now been calculated back to 1950, so it&#8217;s only **** that we also compute WOWY (With Or Without You) for all of those receivers as well. Skip the paragraph after this if you don&#8217;t care about the gory mathematical details,2013-09-24 01:36:059/19: FootballPerspective.com- True Receiving Yards (v2.0) Extended Back to 1950http://www.footballperspective.com/true-receiving-yards-v2-0-extended-back-to-1950/
About a month ago, Chase &#038; I developed a stat called True Receiving Yards, which seeks to put all modern &#038; historical receiving seasons on equal footing by adjusting for the league&#8217;s passing YPG environment &#038; schedule length, plus the amount the player&#8217;s team passed (it&#82013-09-19 00:36:297/1: FootballPerspective.com- Some Initial Thoughts Running Backshttp://www.footballperspective.com/some-initial-thoughts-running-backs/
I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time this offseason looking at how to grade wide receivers; today I wanted to get some initial thoughts down on paper on running backs. I&#8217;m short on time today, which means a lot of data and not so much theory. One of the more underrated statistics to measure running 2013-07-01 00:35:541/7: FootballPerspective.com- Jamaal Charles&#8217; 2012 was one of the most inconsistent seasons in RB historyhttp://www.footballperspective.com/jamaal-charles-2012-was-one-of-the-most-inconsistent-seasons-in-rb-history/
A couple of weeks ago, I heard my buddy and co-worker Sigmund Bloom say on the Footballguys Podcast that Jamaal Charles was having one of the craziest seasons ever. As Sigmund noted, Charles has been an incredibly frustrating fantasy player. This year, he had three games with 10 or fewer rushing yar2013-01-07 23:35:4812/29: FootballPerspective.com- Checkdowns: Career rushing stats in wins and losseshttp://www.footballperspective.com/checkdowns-career-rushing-stats-in-wins-and-losses/
Yesterday, I noted that Adrian Peterson is averaging nearly two more yards per rush in losses than wins. He&#8217;s also averaging a nearly identical number of rushing yards per game in wins and losses. As you&#8217;re about to see, that&#8217;s pretty rare. We all know that wins are correlated with2012-12-29 23:35:4510/10: FootballPerspective.com- Career Rushing Yards over 50 yards in each gamehttp://www.footballperspective.com/career-rushing-yards-over-50-yards-in-each-game/
Career statistics can be very misleading, since a player can hang around for a bunch of meaningless years but really pad his totals. Six years ago, Doug came up with a system that only counted the receiving yards a player recorded after his first 1,000 receiving yards each season. I&#8217;m going to2012-10-10 00:36:36